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Topic: World Cup of College Football

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J.B.Hoy
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World Cup of College Football

Posted: 7/3/2018 11:00:46 AM

Some good Ohio stuff here.
Including:
"USF beats Ohio. Our long national nightmare of living in fear of “Ohio, World Cup Champion” is over."

https://www.sbnation.com/2018/7/2/17511336/world-cup-tour...

sargentfan
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RE: World Cup of College Football

Posted: 7/3/2018 11:28:25 AM

On the bright side they had us as one of the qualifying teams for our region. With Toledo being the only other MAC team to qualify. And we won our group and beat TCU too before losing to USF in a rematch in the 2nd knockout round!

Midwestern Football Union (MFU): eight spots

Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Ohio, Michigan State, Michigan, and Toledo

Group E results

Ohio: Loses to USC, beats USF and Mississippi State. Let one — just one! — MAC team in the building, and this is what happens.

USC: Beats Ohio, loses to Mississippi State and USF. A result so improbable, we’ll have to assume the computer had “a team-wide stomach flu outbreak” as a variable.

USF: Beats USC and Mississippi State, loses to Ohio. If that Ohio game is the last one and they already had a bid to the knockout stage secured? That’s classic World Cup match-management, Bulls.

Mississippi State: Beats USC, loses to Ohio and USF. Yeah, it’s Mississippi State. Entirely plausible that they knock off USC, then spit the bit.

USF and Ohio advance. Ohio wins group.

Ohio beats TCU. The biggest stunner of all. We’ll guess that three players on TCU’s offense were struck by lightning while Ohio played in rubber cleats. Officials missed the lightning strike, because at least once a World Cup, the officials miss something as obvious as lightning hitting three players. (And probably give a red card to one of the stricken players, to boot.)

Last Edited: 7/3/2018 11:30:37 AM by sargentfan

Mark Lembright '85
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RE: World Cup of College Football

Posted: 7/3/2018 12:23:50 PM

J.B.Hoy wrote:

Hilarious reading-great stuff!

Deciduous Forest Cat
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RE: World Cup of College Football

Posted: 7/3/2018 1:36:33 PM

That was pretty funny.

Tyler
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RE: World Cup of College Football

Posted: 7/8/2018 8:19:31 AM

That was a fun read, but the knockout round bracket is set up incorrectly. In the actual World Cup, the two teams who advance out of the group are placed on opposite sides of the bracket, so a rematch of a group match could only happen in the final (or 3rd-place match). Our quarterfinal match should have been the winner of the match between the Group G winner (Virginia Tech) and Group H runner-up (Louisville). VT won that hypothetical match.

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